2024 AUSTIN SECTIONALS
Rising College of Texas sophomore Nate Germonprez capped the four-day Austin Sectional meet on Sunday with an enormous lifetime finest within the 50 freestyle.
The 19-year-old Germonprez dominated the 50 free closing in 22.49, dropping nearly a second off his previous-best 23.28 from 2021. He would have positioned twenty second at Olympic Trials final month, the place he positioned twelfth within the 200 IM (1:58.97). Germonprez touched greater than half a second forward of Longhorns classmate Camden Taylor (23.07) at Sectionals as they gear up for his or her first season underneath former Arizona State head coach Bob Bowman.
Germonprez didn’t swim the 200 IM on Sunday, however the occasion nonetheless options some spectacular finishes courtesy of latest Texas A&M graduate Thomas Shomper and Waterloo Swimming 17-year-old Raphael Wang. Shomper received the battle in 2:03.72, taking nearly two seconds off his previous-best 2:05.45 from 2021. The 22-year-old backstroke specialist positioned twenty fifth within the 100 again (55.11) and twenty seventh within the 200 again (2:00.23) at Olympic Trials final month.
Wang earned the runner-up end within the 200 IM with a lifetime finest of two:06.33 because the Duke commit (’25) knocked greater than two seconds off his previous-best 2:08.59 from final August.
Current Texas A&M graduate Chloe Stepanek continued her red-hot weekend with one other lifetime finest en path to the 200 IM title in 2:17.63. She dropped nearly two seconds off her previous-best 2:19.20 from 2022 because the freestyle specialist seeks a fifth-year collegiate vacation spot within the NCAA switch portal.
Rising Texas A&M sophomore Hannah O’Leary was the one different swimmer underneath 2:20 within the ladies’s 200 IM closing on her strategy to 2nd place in 2:19.56. The 19-year-old dropped greater than two seconds off her previous-best 2:21.81 from 2022.
The lone excessive schooler to come back away with a person title on Sunday was Harvard commit (’25) Aliana Marakovic within the ladies’s 50 free (26.38). The 17-year-old has been as quick as 26.19 final August. Rising Texas sophomore Emma Kern was shut behind Marakovic in 26.46, inside a number of tenths of her personal-best 26.17 from 2022.
Colton Bennett captured the boys’s 1500 free crown in 16:27.90, crushing his previous-best 16:34.55 from 2022. The 19-year-old Henderson State commit (’24) beat Travis Ly (16:28.69) by lower than a second in an exhilarating showdown earlier within the day. Rising Texas A&M junior Kaylee Coffey clinched the ladies’s 1500 free title in 17:38.42, greater than 10 seconds slower than her personal-best 17:27.57 from final July.
